RANCHUELOS - The People's Tribunal (Court) of Ranchuelos in Villa Clara
province on March 10 sentenced Jorge Luis Fleites Jiménez to serve four
years of domiciliary reclusion for expressing contempt for the current
administration of the country, according to Reinaldo Cabezas, of the
Movimiento Reflexión Reflexion Movement).

Fleites Jiménez was charged with having uttered insulting words against
the revolution and President Fidel Castro after local authorities fined
him for having a water pipe standing in front of his house, which was
under construction.

Cabezas said the insults were heard by Omar Roberto Pérez and Lázaro
Reyes Aguilera, watchmen for the National Revolutionary Police, who gave
Fleites a bruising beating with the help of former policeman Jorge
Valdés Gil, a.k.a. "Liborito."

Neighbors rescued Fleites Jiménez from the beating but his aggressors
proceeded to take him to the police station. He was there four days
before his trial.